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Board approves special-education vendor contracts; member objects to continued teletherapy over in-person services
Summary
The board approved recommended vendors for RFPs covering speech-language services, sign-language interpreters, teletherapy and school nurses. One board member voted against approval, citing concerns about teletherapy and urging pursuit of in-person clinicians for district students.
The Central Consolidated Schools Board approved evaluation results and vendor selections for four special-education RFPs covering speech-language services, sign-language interpreters, teletherapy and school nurses, but the vote was not unanimous.
Joel Balosuit of the special education department presented four RFP evaluations and recommended multiple vendors for each service. For speech therapy (RFP 25SPED154) the team recommended several vendors; for sign-language interpreters (25SPED155) the recommended vendors included Gifted, National Recruiting and others; for teletherapy speech services (25SPED156) top-ranked vendors included Soliant, Illumina and Gifted Nurses; and for school nurses (25SPED157) recommended vendors…
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